CD/DVD Disc
Duplicator Controller
CONTENT
Introduction Features
Model & Specification Control Panel
Menu Overview Operation Guide
1. Copy 2. Test
3. Copy & Verify 4. Copy & compare 5. Verify
6. Compare Disc 7. Burn Speed 8. Select Source 9. Audio Track Edit 10. Utility
INTRODUCTION
The duplicator is a stand-alone CD/DVD Disc Duplicator Controllers, maximum support up to 11 CD/DVD discs duplicating simultaneously. There are total of 11/7/3 independent IDE ports on the controller and each IDE port is independent from each other. Therefore, the controller can control different CD/DVD Devices with different model, brand, or burning speed to operate at the same time. The controller support up to 11 discs duplicating simultaneously at maximum 56x CD writing and 16X DVD writing.
An easy to use operating control panel includes a LCD screen and 4 push buttons. All operating message and information including function list, instructions, operating status, or error message will real time display on the screen. Users can easily read and follow the instructions to complete their jobs even without user manual.
OPTIONAL HARD DRIVE will allow users to load many CD/DVD
Master Source Discs into the HDD as source disc image. Loading disc image into HDD will reduce the risk of damaging Source Disc due to heaving duplicating jobs. An intelligent and dynamic HDD management system will dynamically assign HDD partitions to each CD/DVD disc image loading according to their actual capacity requirement. This smart HDD manager will ensure a more flexible and efficient HDD management.
FEATURES
¾ Up to 11 Ports IDE-to-IDE CD/DVD Disc Duplicating Controller
¾ Auto detecting IDE devices as soon as system power on. ¾ 2x16 LCD display and 4 control buttons.
¾ Support up to max 56x CD duplication, 16xDVD duplication ¾ Flexibility in setting different duplication speed based on various
Disc condition.
¾ Support IDE Hard Drive Device. Loading master source CD or DVD discs into Hard Drive as disc “image”. Easy to copy the stored disc image into numbers of blank discs.
¾ Support Audio Track editing. Easy to combine your favorite audio tracks from different sources into one customized CD. ¾ Special Pre-Scan can evaluate the master source disc before
copying to ensure a successful copying.
¾ Support copying simulation to prevent any failure caused by bad blank disc or source disc.
¾ Support verification to ensure copied disc’s readability ¾ Support all major disc types
¾ Auto detect source disc
¾ Can set button beep sound on or off
LCD Front Panel
LCD Front Panel
Control Buttons
There are 4 control buttons:
i, j, OK Canceli : UP; Backward; Use this button to navigate backward
to search functions you like.
j : Down; Forward; Use this button to navigate forward
to search function you like
OK : OK, Enter, Execute the function
Cancel : Escape, Go back to previous function
LCD Display
Menu Overview
1. COPY
This is to make CD/DVD copy. Before you start this
menu to copy, please make sure you have populated the
correct reading source and blank discs. The system will
automatically detect and display how many blank discs
were detected. When the system ready it will automatically
execute CD/DVD duplicating.
2. TEST
This is to simulate Copying Process Simulation. The
process is the same as COPY, but it won’t write anything to
the record able disc. The purpose of this process is to
ensure an error free duplication.
3. COPY&VERIFY
This operation will make copies and after the copy process
has been finished, it will continue a Verification process
automatically check the copied disc to ensure data
correctness.
4. COPY & COMPARE
This operation will make copies and after copy process has been finished, it will continue a Comparison process automatically to ensure data correctness.
5. VERIFY
This is to make Disc Readability Check. This operation will check your master discs and the copied disc’s readability to make sure all of your copies are readable.
6. COMPARE DISC
7. SET BURN SPEED
This operation will allow you to adjust and select Duplication Speed.
8. SELECT SOURCE
To set the Master Reading Source as Optical Drive or Hard Drive Disk.
9. AUDIO TRACK EDIT
This will help you to select and combine audio tracks from various CDs into a single customized audio CD.
10. UTILITY 10.1 Pre-scan
This feature will help to check whether the Master Source Disc can be correctly duplicated.
10.2 Quick Erase
This operation will erase your re-writable discs in the Writer Tray.
10.3 Full Erase
This operation will completely erase your re-writable discs in the Writer Tray. It takes longer time than Quick Erase. 10.4 Eject All Disc
Eject all discs, including master source disc and all of disc in writer tray.
10.5 Disc Info
This feature will allow you to check disc’s basic information such as disc type, data length, and available space
10.6 Drive Info.
This feature will allow you to check the duplicator’s major component information, such as manufacturer, Device’s model number and version.
10.7 System Info
This feature provides information of the duplicator, including Controller model number, Buffer memory capacity, and Firmware version.
10.8 Update BIOS
11. SETUP
11.1 Power On Time
You can set the system warm up time from 5 sec to 255 sec after system power on.
11.2 Auto Start
This operation will allow the duplicator to automatically execute copying once your master source disc and all of writer trays are fulfilled with recordable discs. You can set off or seconds (1~99) to activate this feature. You have to select and set which operation mode of COPY, TEST, VERIFY, COPMARE, COPY&VERIFY, COPY&COMPARE to execute Auto Start.
11.3 Startup Menu
You can select which function in the menu to shown first when you turned on the duplicator. The Default startup menu is COPY.
11.4 Write Method
You can select which mode to duplicate CD among “DAO”, “SAO”, and “TAO”. If you are not sure about this feature, the default mode is “DAO”, Disc at Once.
11.5 Button Beep
You can choose whether to hear a beep when you press a button or not.
11.6 Skip Read Error
This function is to ignore the error setting in the source disc to increase the copying success while backup some special or bad quality source disc
11.7 Eject on Start
This is to set the function to eject all disc trays when system power on no matter there is disc in the trays or not
11.8 Clear Setup
12.1 Select Image (with Optional HDD)
To select Image file as Sources to be copied to discs 12.2 Disc -> Image
To copy Source Disc to HDD and save as Image file. 12.3 Reader Speed
ONLY when perform 12.2 Disc -> Image function, you can set the Reading Speed of reading the master source disc 12.4 Image Info.
To check image file information and file size 12.5 Rename Image
To modify the file name of image file name on the HDD. 12.6 Delete Image
To delete Image file on the HDD. If the file is selected as source file, you are not able to delete it unless you go back to 12.1 to re-select the image.
12.7 HDD Info.
To check the information in HDD, such as how many discs are stored and HDD available space.
12.8 Format HDD
Operation Guide
1. COPY
This operation will guide you to copy Master Reading Source to Blank CD/DVD disc. Please ensure that Master Reading Source is set to the READER if you would like to make Disc-to-Disc copies
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Turn on the duplicator, before you start this menu to copy, please make sure you have put correct reading source and blank discs.o
The system will automatically detect and display howmany blank discs were detected. Press i, j to
navigate the function menu to 1. COPY and press
OKto execute CD/DVD copies.
1.Copy 79:45 7 discs detected
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When the coping is finished, the Writer Trays will automatically eject.2. TEST
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This function is to perform Copying Process Simulation. The process is the same as COPY, but it won’t write anything to the recordable discs.o
Pressi , jto navigate the function menu to 2.
Test
2.Test 79:47 discs detected 5
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The system will auto detect the numbers of blank
disc and start to simulate the process of COPY,
just press
OKto execute. However, there is no data
will be actually written to the blank disc.
Test 79:4 Loading Disc 5 Test 79:45 Analyze Disc... Test 79:45 10% 08:00Finished and Eject discs
3. COPY & VERIFY
This operation will make copies and after the copies was finished, it will continue a Verification process automatically to ensure data correctness. Therefore, the duplicator will not eject discs when copy was finished until verification was done.
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Before you start this menu to copy, please make sure you have put correct reading source and blank discs. Pressi , j to navigate the function menu to 3. COPY & VERIFY. 3.Copy&Verify7 discs detected
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The system will automatically detect and display how many blank discs were detected. When the system is ready to copy, just press OK to execute CD/DVD coping.When the system starts copying process, first it will start Loading Disc, analyzing the discs, and then start coping. During the copying, the LCD screen will display Master Source Disc’s data size and copying progress.
Copy&Verify Loading Disc
Copy&Verify Analyze Disc… Copy 79:45 10% 08:00When copying finished, the system will automatically continue to verify to make disc Readability check.
Verify 9:45 45% 35:45
4. COPY & COMPARE
This operation will make copies and after copy process has been finished, it will continue a Comparison process automatically to ensure data correctness. Therefore, the duplicator will not eject discs until discs Comparison was done correctly.
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Before you start this menu to copy, please make sure you have put correct reading source and blank discs. Pressi , j to navigate the function menu to 4. COPY&COMPARE.4.Copy&Compare 7 discs detected
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When the system is ready to copy, just place OK to execute CD/DVD copies.p
When the system starts copying process, first it will start Loading Disc, and analyzing the discs, and then start copies. During the copying, the LCD screen will display Master Source Disc’s data size and copying progress.q
When copying finished, the system will automatically continue Comparison process to ensurecopied exactly the same as source disc. Copy 79:45
10% 08:00 Copy&Compare Loading Disc
the discs have
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When the Comparison was finished, the Writer Trays will automatically eject.5. VERIFY
This is to make Disc Readability Check. This operation will check your master discs and the copied disc’s readability to make sure all of your copies are readable.
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Put master source disc and all copied discs into the duplicator,o
Pressi, j to navigate the function menu to 5.Verify. Press OK, then the duplicator will automatically start loading disc, analyzing source disc and start verification. 5.Verify 7 disc detected Verify 79 Loading Disc :45 Verify 79: Analyze Disc… 45 Verify 79:45 45% 35:456. COMPARE
This is to make a bit-by-bit Comparison between Master Reading Source and all the copied discs inside the writer tray. This operation is to ensure all of our copies have the exactly same information as your Master Reading Source.
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Put master source disc and all copied discs into the duplicator,o
Pressi, j to navigate the function menu to 6.Verify. Press OK, the duplicator will automatically start loading disc, analyzing source disc and start Comparison. 6.Compare 7 discs detected Compare 7 Loading Disc 9:45 Compare 79:4 Analyze Disc… 5 Compare 79:45 45% 35:45p
When Comparison was finished, the duplicator writer trays will automatically eject.7. SELECT SPEED
This operation will allow you to adjust and select Duplication Speed on three different disc types of CD, Audio CD, and DVD.
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Move i , j to navigate to function 7. SELECTSPEED, and press OK
7.Set Burn Speed
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You will see three disc types of CD, Audio CD,
and DVD. Move i , j
to selected disc type and
press OK to confirm your selection.
[Burn Spe CD = 52
ed]
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Press i , j to select burning speed. [Burn SpDVD = 8 eed] [Burn Speed] Audio CD = 40
8. SELECT SOURCE
This function is to set the Master Reading Source as Optical Drive or Hard Drive Disk.
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Move i , j to navigate to function 8. Select Source and press OK.o
Press i, j to select HDD or Optical Drive with assigned number as Reading Source.Source Drive = HDD:ST380021A => Move i , j to select 8.Select Source Source Drive D#1:DVD-ROM ==>
Press OK to finished setting
★ ☆ Note: If HDD was selected as Source, then please follow 12.1 Select Image ‘s instruction to continue to select image file as reading source.
9. AUDIO TRACK EDIT
This process will guide you to select audio tracks from various audio CDs and combine them into one customized Audio CD.
9.1 Select and Copy Track:
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Move( , ( to 9.Audio Track Edit, and press OK
Then select 1. Copy Track.
9.Track Edit
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Insert an Audio CD with your favorite tacks in the
Reading drive and Insert ONLY ONE Blank CD-R
disc into one of the writers. ( Note: insert only
one blank CD-R)
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As soon as both audio CD and blank CD-R are
recognized, you will see the message of “ready to
press OK” on duplicator LCD screen, then press
OK to start operation.
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Navigate (, ( to the track number which you would
like to select, and then press OK to confirm your
selection. Continue our selection with the same
activity. You shall see a letter of “ a, b, c, d,….”
shown on top of each selected track.
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Once you finished selecting the tracks you want to copy, you can pressj to move cursor to the end of the “OK” display. And press OK to confirm and submit your selection.s
Once your submit your selection, you shall see“ Copying Audio Tracks…..” on your LCD screen.
c d e 7 8 9 10 OK
Press OK to start burning
Track 01 04:39 Copy.... 00:04
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When copying was finished, the LCD will show CD-R’s usage and free space.Track Used 59:15 15Free 20:42
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9.2 Close Disc
This process is to make a CD-R/CD-RW disc has copied tracks become a playable Audio CD.
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Movei, j to 9.Audio Track Edit, and press OK.o
Move to select 2. Close Disc and press
OKto start
close disc process.
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When Close Disc is processing, you will see message on the LCD show:q
When the process is done, writer will automatically eject the disc, and you will see finished on the LCD.9.Track Edit
Close finished and eject disc Finished!
9.3 Disc Info.
This feature allows you to check your disc status, such as available capacity.
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Movei, j to 9.Audio Track Edit, and press OK. 9.Track Edito
Select 3. Disc Info, and press OK. [Track Edit]3.Disc Info.
10. UTILITY
This function group includes several Disc related functions. You can press OK and move i,jto select function you want.
10.1 Pre-scan
This feature will help to check whether your Master Source Disc can be correctly duplicated.
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Select Utility and press OK10.2 Quick Erase
This operation will erase your re-writable discs in the Writer Tray. When finished erasing, the tray will automatically eject. The duplicator can erase different types of re-writable discs simultaneously. You can place the re-writable disc you would like to erase in any tray of writers.
★☆ Note: If you see “O” “o” take turns blinking, it means Erasing is in processing.
If you see “F” “f” take turns blinking, it means DVD+RW Disc Formatting is in processing.
10.3 Full Erase
This operation will completely erase your re-writable discs in the Writer Tray. It takes longer time than Quick Erase. When finished, the writer will automatically eject trays.
Quick Erase Disc _ O _ _ _ O _ o
Erasing done and eject discs
insert re-writable discs and press OK
Full Erase Disc _ O _ _ _ o _ _
Erasing finished and eject discs [Utility]
Insert re-writable disc and press OK 3.Full Erase
10.4 Eject All Discs
Eject all discs, including master source disc and all of disc in writer trays.
10.5 Disc Info
This feature will allow you to check disc’s basic information such as disc type, data length, and available capacity
Press OK Eject all discs
Place disc and press OK [Utility]
5.Disc Info. [Utility] 4.Eject All Disc
10.6 Drive Info
This feature will allow you to check the duplicator’s major component information, such as manufacturer, Writer or Reader model number and version.
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Movei, j to 10. Utility and press OK. Then press i,j to 6. Drive Info.o
The duplicator will assign each drive a number
from #1to#8. #1 is Reader.#2~#8 are writers.
10.7 System Info
This feature provide information of the duplicator, including controller model number, RAM capacity, and Firmware version
press OK P727DVD Ver:1.00 64MB [Setup] 7.System Info. [#1]Port8.0 3.38 CD-ROM Max 52X
Press i, j to select different Drives [Utility]
10.8 Update BIOS
This operation will update your duplicator’s software. You need to insert manufacturer’s certified update CD.
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Movei, j to 10. Utility and press OK. And select 8. Update BIOS,[Setup] 8.Update BIOS
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Insert a correct update CD to any Drive and press OK Upgrade BIOSWaiting Disc… Upgrade BIOS Identify Disc
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The system will automatically start executing firmware update. When finished, the update CD will automatically eject Start updat Writing 5% e... Start update... Complete !q
In 2 sec, the system will re-boot. The new firmware update is finishedNew BIOS update Restart System!
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11. SETUP
This function group provides 8 features allow changing manufacturer’s default setting.
11.1 Power On Time
You can set the system warm up time from 5 sec to 255 sec after system power on.
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Select 11. Set Up and press OK [Setup]1.Power On Time
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Select 1. Power On Time and press OKp
Press i to select seconds.Power On De 15 seconds
11.2 Auto Start
This operation will allow the duplicator to automatically execute copying once your master source disc and all of writer trays are fulfilled with recordable discs. You can set “Off” to disable auto start or set “On” with seconds(1~99) to activate this feature. To execute this function, you have to select and set operation mode of COPY, TEST, VERIFY, COPMARE, COPY&VERIFY,
COPY&COMPARE for auto start copying. [Setup]
2.Auto Start Press OK
Auto Start 3 seconds
Pressi,j to set seconds
Note: If you set “Off”, then LCD screen will not show how
many blank discs are detected in writer trays.
11.3 Startup Menu
3.1.1 You can select which function in the menu to see first when you turned on the duplicator. The default setting is COPY.
Move i,j to select function Press OK
[Startup Menu] 1.Copy Disc [Setup]
11.4 Write Method
You can select which mode to duplicate CD among “DAO”, “SAO”,and “TAO”. The default mode is “DAO”, Disc at Once. Unless you understand completely what they mean, we strongly suggest you to set it as “Disc at Once”
11.5 Button Beep
You can choose whether to hear a beep when you press a button or not. Write Method DAO
move i , j to select
[Setup] 4.Write Method Press OK[Setup]
5.Button Beep
Press OK
Button Beep
ON
11.6 Skip Read Error
This function is to ignore the error setting in the source disc to increase the copying success while backup some special or bad quality source disc.
Move i , j to select ON/OFF
Skip Read Error
==> Yes
[Setup]
6.Skip ReadError
11.7 Eject On Start
This is to set the function to eject all disc trays when system power on no matter there is disc in the trays or not.
[Setup]
7.Eject On Start
7.Eject On Start
==> Eject All
Move i , j to select function
(Eject All/No Eject/Eject Target/Eject Source)
11.8 Clear All
Reset all of the operations back to manufacturer’s default.
[Setup]
6.Clear Setup
12. IMAGE MANAGER (For Duplicator with HDD Installed)
This function will guide you to perform various Hard Drive related operations. If your duplicator didn’t install HDD, the system menu will not show this function. Please refer to 12.8 ABOUT HDD
MANAGER to get more information about the special function and advantages about this feature.
12.1 Select Image
This function will guide you to select Image file as Sources to be copied to discs. This function is required when you would like to make copy from HDD to Disc. Please refer to 12.1.1 for how to make Hard Drive-to-Disc Copies.
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Movei, j to 12. HDD Manager and press OK. And select 1. Select Image.2.
[Select Image]
A001 DVD 4469M
move i , j to select and press OK to confirm
[Image Manager]
12.1.1 Make Hard Drive-to-Disc Copies
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Make sure Master Reading Source is set to Hard Drive. Once you have done 12.1 Select Image, the Reading Source will automatically set in HDD.o
Go back to main menu and move i, j to select 1.Copy
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Please insert blank discs into writer trays. (If there
is a disc in the Reader tray, it will be ignored)
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Press OK to start copying. If you already
executed 11.2 Auto Start, then when all writer
trays are fulfilled with blank disc, the system will
auto start copying.
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When finished, the tray will automatically eject.
12.2 Disc => Image
This function will guide you to load your master source disc onto the Hard Drive and saved as an image file.
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Place Master Source Disc onto any Drive,o
Select 12.2 Disc -> Image and press OK[Disc ==> A001] 10% 446MB
** The source disc loaded to HDD as image file A001
[Image Manager] 2.Disc => Image Press OK [Disc ==> A001] Finished ! 100%
Note1.: The source disc can be placed in any Reader or any one of Writer Drive.
12.3 Reader Speed
When you would like to perform This function 12.2 Disc -> Image , this function will guide you to set the Reading Speed of reading the master source disc
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[Image Manager] 3.Reader Speed
★☆Note: This function is ONLY available when loading Source Disc to HDD
12.4 Image Info
This function allows you to check image file information of Image file number, Disc type, and its file size.
Press OK [Image Info.] A001 DVD 4469MB [Image Manager] 4.Image Info. 3875MB DVD disc image file A001 [Image Info] A001 DVD 3875MB
CD disc image with 65 min 28 sec, file name A003
12.5 Rename Image
This function is to modify the file name of image file name on the HDD.
Select 12. HDD Manager and press OK , select 5.Rename Image
Select the image file you want to rename and press OK
Key in new file name and press OK
Press OK to confirm rename OK [Image Manager] 5.Rename Image
001 [A001 ] DVD 4469M
Edit Image Name [A007 ]
Edit Image Name [DVD07 ] OK ?
Image
12.6 Delete Image
This function allows you to delete image file in HDD. If the file has been selected as source file, you are not able to delete it unless you go back to 12.1 to re-select other image as source.
[Image Manager] 5.Delete Image
12.7 HDD Info.
This function allows you to check the information of HDD, such as how many discs are stored and available space of HDD.
[DELETE Image] A001 DVD 4469M
Select the image file you would like to delete Press OK press OK to confirm A003 DVD 4372M DELETE Complete! [DELETE Image] A003 DVD 4372M
press OK and execute delete
[Image Manager] 6.HDD Info. Press OK
12.8 Format HDD
This feature will allow you to format the HDD. However, you will not be able to format the HDD if the HDD image was selected as Reading Source. You should go to 8. Select Source to select Optical Drive as Reading Source, then you shall be able to format HDD.
press OK to confirm format Press OK
12.9 ABOUT HDD MANAGER
Our duplicator has a highly intelligent and dynamic HDD management technology. Unlike traditional method of formatting HDD, in which the number of partition is determined by dividing your Hard Drive‘s total capacity by 5GB for DVD or 1GB for CD. In this way, you have to decide how many partitions for DVD or CD before you start format your Hard Drive. However, sometime, you are not able to predict how many DVD or CD that you are going to load into the Hard Drive. And potentially you will create many incomplete partitions. Especially, when there is more and more different DVD discs coming out, such as double- layer DVD, you need a smarter and more dynamic way to manage your HDD.
Our Dynamic HDD Manager has following special features:
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Auto Detect Disc Capacity and Dynamically Assign Partitions
1. When first time format your built-in HDD, our duplicator will automatically divide the HDD into number of partitions into 1GB. You don’t have to predict and select DVD or CD partition in the beginning.
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You can go to check HDD information in function 12.6 HDD Info, the Hard Drive’s capacity is presented in terms of how many DVD or CD discs you can load. For example, if your built-in HDD is 40GB, then the system will show the HDD available capacity:Used: 0 DVD 0CD Free: 8 DVD 40CD
40GB / 5GB = 8 DVD 40GB / 1 GB = 40 CD
3. Every time you load a source disc, the duplicator will auto detect the disc capacity and assign correct partitions for it. For example, if you loaded a 4GB single-layer DVD disc into HDD as a disc image, system will automatically detect and assign 4 partitions for it.
4. Dynamic calculate and display HDD capacity. The duplicator will present your built-in HDD capacity information dynamically depending on each time your loaded source disc’s capacity. For example, before your load a 4GB DVD disc as source disc image, your HDD information shows your HDD capacity is available for loading 5 DVD or 26 CDs. However, after loading a 4GB DVD, the system will
re-calculate the total available partitions and show you how
many DVD or CD discs that you can load as disc image next time.
Before load 4GB DVD HDD info:
Used: 2 DVD 3CD Free: 5 DVD 26CD
Note: DVD indicates 5GB partition and CD indicate 1GB partition
After load 4GB DVD HDD info:
Used: 3 DVD 3CD Free: 4 DVD 22CD
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Smart Image File Management:1. When Discs are loaded into HDD as stored disc image. The system will assign a file name to the image file beginning from A001~.
☆★Note: Each time a new disc image is loaded, the system will auto search and assign the lowest number as file name. For example, if there is not deleted file, then file name will be assigned by sequence from A001, A002,…and .Axxx. However, if there is a file deleted, such as A003, then the file name will be held. When next time there is a new disc image stored, then the lowest number of A003 will be assigned as this new disc image’s file name.
2. You are allowed to delete an image file by executing 12.5 delete image. Once you deleted an image file, the file name will be left empty and hold for future’s new loaded image file. The existing file name will not be changed or moved ahead due to the deletion.
3. You can check your image file information in function 12. 4 Image Info. The image information will present the image file name, Disc type and file size.
[image info] A001 DVD 3875MB
3875MB DVD disc image file A001
USB 2.0/Firewire O
or[image info] A003 CD 65:28
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13. USB/Firewire Options
** Only for Duplicators with USB/Firewire connectors **